The scarlet city: a novel of 16th-century Italy

In this masterly novel, Hella Haasse, the author of last year's bestselling takes readers to a 16th-century Italy torn by the savage violence of war and by sinister intrigues for power, and Giovanni Borgia's agonizing search for his true origins.

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Pagina xiii1 525: Francis I is defeated, this time disastrously, by the Imperial forces under
the Marquis of Pescara, at Pavia. The French King is taken prisoner there and
sent to Madrid. [Giovanni Borgia, who has been fighting for the French there, is
also ...

Pagina 201Over those birds and several jars of wine, we argued until the moon rose about
the talk going the rounds concerning Messer Morone's visit to the Marquis ofPescara. A secret that's known to all of Rome: that's a subject for the commedia
del' ...

Pagina 264"Calm down, Messer," I said, "perhaps you conveyed certain facts to the Spanish
sympathizers in connection with Girolamo Morone and the Marquis of Pescara?"
"How could you think a thing like that about me, Messer Giovanni? This is the ...

The scarlet city: a novel of 16th-century Italy

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Against the turbulent backdrop of the Italian Wars (1494-1559) Haasse traces the lives and struggles of some of Italy's most famous citizens--Michelangelo Buonarroti, Niccolo Machiavelli, Vittoria ...Volledige review lezen

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Over de auteur (1990)

Hella Haasse was born in Batavia, the capital of what was then Dutch East India, now independent Indonesia. It is thus understandable why her first novel, Oeroeg (1948), describes the relationship between a Dutch and an Indonesian youth. As the two young men grow up, they gradually become conscious of their ethnic and cultural differences and, in spite of their efforts, nature appears to have destined them to become estranged from each other. Haasse's greatest impact on the Dutch literary scene occurred when her historical novel Het woud der verwachting (In a Dark Wood Wandering) (1948) was published. It was translated into English in 1989. This novel became a classic in its own time. In it the author describes the ever-increasing loneliness of the fifteenth-century Romantic poet--prince Charles d'Orleans, pretender to the crown of France, who wrote most of his poems in British and French prisons. In addition to giving a moving report of the life of a person destined to end his life in utter isolation, Hella Haasse succeeds in presenting her main character in a way which allows the reader to identify with him. Charles's life is interwoven with the lives of all the other people he meets. Haasse's talent for description and narration and her skill with flashbacks allow her to manage the novel's many characters, constructing a microcosm in which each reader feels "at home' and meets people with whom he or she can identify.